6 h. ago ‘I’ve spent almost 20 years in prison for robbing £20. Now UK wants to deport me to a country I’ve never called home’

Exclusive: IPP prisoner Sheldon Coore, 47, says he is being punished ‘twice and thrice and even tenfold’

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8 h. ago Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart review – her frankness about her ordeal is truly inspiring

Taken from her bedroom at the age of 14 and sexually abused for nine months, Smart, now a child safety activist, rails powerfully against shame in this true-crime documentaryNew year, new true-crime documentary from Netflix. Age cannot wither the genre made famous by the streamer all the way back in 2015 with Making a Murderer, which explored the wrongful conviction of Steven Avery for sexual assault and attempted murder who spent 18 years in prison for that and who was later tried and convicted of another murder. That documentary was a decade in the making. Things move more quickly now, and the preferred content is more palatable to a mass audience – tales of victims’ survival and the very rightful conviction of perpetrators meet the voyeuristic appetite and proxy lust for vengeance without requiring too much painful thinking abut the inadequacies of a country’s legal system, say, or the corruption of its law enforcement.Still, the new approach has brought some astonishing untold s...

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26 h. ago Russia’s Lavrov mocks Britain as only country to call itself ‘Great’ in bizarre address

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made the comments during his annual end-of-year press conference

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27 h. ago Russia mocks Britain as only country in the world to call itself ‘Great’

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made the comments during his annual end-of-year press conference

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31 h. ago Ice hockey and then some: Heated Rivalry is a worldwide hit – and no one is happier about it than us Canadians | Sue Carter

In a country plagued by underdog status and a sport fraught with a history of racism, misogyny and homophobia, this adaptation has reimagined what’s possible I grew up in a hockey town where there was no escaping Canada’s beloved sport. Our suburban streets doubled as rinks; the choppy slap of tennis balls reverberating against hockey sticks a constant sound. As pre-teens, my friends and I would put on lip gloss and tight jeans to hang out at the Friday night junior hockey games. I still find comfort in the sound of skate blades slicing across ice and that sweaty, chemical odour of public arenas.My experiences are not unique in a country with a 95-year-old broadcast institution called Hockey Night in Canada. Rachel Reid, the Nova Scotian author of the queer hockey romance Heated Rivalry, grew up a hockey fanatic, more interested in playing the game than ogling boys. Jacob Tierney, who wrote and directed the TV adaptation of Reid’s 2019 bestseller, was raised in Montreal, where the C...

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4 d. ago Exiled Iranian crown prince urges Trump to carry out 'surgical strike' on IRGC as he vows to return to the country and calls for global support

Reza Pahlavi has been spurring the international community to ramp up pressure on the government in Tehran as deadly protests continue to rock the Middle Eastern nation.

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5 d. ago Reza Pahlavi: is the last shah's son a viable opposition leader for Iran? – video explainer

From his exile in the US, Reza Pahlavi, the son of the last shah of Iran, has galvanised protesters in his home country, calling for them to continue demonstrating against the Islamic Republic. But Pahlavi is a divisive figure. As the heir of a violent authoritarian regime, his potential return is viewed suspiciously by some. Chants in his favour heard in the streets of Tehran and beyond may be less about support for the crown and more about him being seen as the only option to take people out of the country's political 'dead end'Growing protests in Iran do not necessarily herald a return to monarchy‘The world needs to know what’s happening’: families of protesters killed in Iran tell of heartbreak Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Iran closes airspace to all flights as foreign minister denies it plans to execute protesters – live

Abbas Araghchi says hangings over anti-government demonstrations are ‘out of the question’ while flight tracking data shows airlines avoiding Iranian airspaceUS and UK military to withdraw some personnel from Middle East amid Iranian threatsAnalysis: why western diplomats are wary of predicting end days for Iran’s regimeMassacres and executions: what are we hearing from inside Iran? – podcastFor the first time in days, Iranians were able to make calls abroad from their mobiles on Tuesday, according to reporting by Associated Press. Texting services have not been restored, however, and nor has the internet.Although Iranians were able to call abroad, they could not receive calls from outside the country, several people in the capital told Associated Press. The internet remained blocked, they said, though it is possible to access some government-approved websites. Cloudfare - an internet infrastructure provider, and one of several companies and monitors tracking the status of internet ...

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7 d. ago Iran protests live updates: death toll passes 2,500 as Trump warns Tehran against executions

US president says ‘help is on its way’, as reported death toll rises into the thousands and concerns Tehran may carry out first protest-related execution, that of Erfan SoltaniTrump promises ‘help is on its way’ and tells Iranians to ‘keep protesting’Hundreds of gunshot eye injuries found in one Iranian hospital amid brutal crackdown on protestsIran protests: what we know so far about the spiralling anti-government demonstrationsFor the first time in days, Iranians were able to make calls abroad from their mobiles on Tuesday, according to reporting by Associated Press. Texting services have not been restored, however, and nor has the internet.Although Iranians were able to call abroad, they could not receive calls from outside the country, several people in the capital told Associated Press. The internet remained blocked, they said, though it is possible to access some government-approved websites. Cloudfare - an internet infrastructure provider, and one of several companies and mon...

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9 d. ago Trump threatens to block ExxonMobil from Venezuela after CEO calls country ‘uninvestable’

US president says company is ‘playing too cute’ after CEO responds sceptically to his push for oil investment after deposing Nicolás MaduroDonald Trump has said he might block ExxonMobil from investing in Venezuela after the oil company’s chief executive called the country “uninvestable” during a White House meeting last week.Darren Woods told the US president that Venezuela would need to change its laws before it could be an attractive investment opportunity, during the high-profile meeting on Friday with at least 17 other oil executives. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Elon Musk hits out at Keir Starmer after reposting AI image of PM wearing a bikini

He called the UK a country that wants to ‘suppress free speech’

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1 week ago Elon Musk hits out at Keir Starmer reposting AI image of PM wearing a bikini

He called the UK a country that wants to ‘suppress free speech’

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1 week ago US oil giant ExxonMobil tells Trump Venezuela is ‘uninvestable’

Chief executive Darren Woods pushes back against president’s call to rush back into troubled country

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1 week ago Iran’s supreme leader sets stage for harsher crackdown as protest movement swells

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calls protesters ‘vandals’ and ‘saboteurs’ and blames the US for instigating the unrestIran’s supreme leader has vowed that authorities will “not back down” in the face of a rapidly growing protest movement, setting the stage for an intensified violent crackdown on the second day of a nationwide internet shutdown.Protests have raged in cities and towns across the country in recent days, posing a threat to the authority of the regime, which has been significantly weakened since the last large protest movement in the country in 2022. Another round of demonstrations was called for Friday night. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘A more convenient dictatorship’: fear and uncertainty in Venezuela after fall of Maduro

US capture of president gave many Venezuelans hope, but a week on, an even more draconian atmosphere pervades the South American countryUS politics live – latest updatesFreddy Guevara will never forget the 34 excruciating days he spent inside Venezuela’s most notorious political prison after being snatched by masked men from President Nicolás Maduro’s intelligence agency.The black hood, the interrogations, the stress positions, the salsa music his captors blasted at him in an attempt to make him crack. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Internet blackout in Iran as protests over economy intensify across the country

Unrest spreads to more cities after call by country’s exiled crown prince for mass demonstrations

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2 w. ago Rose McGowan suspects Harvey Weinstein is serving his 16 year sentence 'in a Connecticut mansion' as she breaks down in tears in emotional interview: 'I don't know if he's ever spent a day in prison'

The actress, 52, who was one of the leading activists of the global Me Too movement and accused Weinstein of sexually assaulting her at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival. 

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2 w. ago Pope Leo says his soul is ‘full of concern’ over Venezuela and calls for country to remain independent

Pope Leo was speaking to pilgrims in St. Peter's Square during his weekly Sunday prayer

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2 w. ago Freezing conditions across UK cause host of matches to be postponed

The freezing conditions across the country means 13 EFL matches have been called off.

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2 w. ago Owner of the Swiss ski bar where 40 people died spent time in prison for 'fraud, kidnapping and false imprisonment' and was 'a known pimp'

The owner of the Swiss ski bar at the centre of a New Year's Day inferno that claimed 40 lives and left 119 injured spent time in prison for 'fraud, kidnapping and false imprisonment' and was a known pimp, it emerged today.

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